As the clouds clear and the daytime heating commences across the southern plains, the threat for severe weather is intensifying. And so is the wind. Gusts to 45 mph are being felt across parts of…
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Southern Plains forecast remains “up in the air”
(UPDATE 12:00 PM) If you are here checking on today’s severe weather potential, please see our latest thoughts on today’s event here (ORIGINAL ARTICLE: 5:00 PM) It’s not often that the closer you get to…
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Youtube videos of severe weather 4/3/14
Here is a look at some of the Youtube videos people uploaded after the handful of severe storms moved through the southern plains and southeast on April 3, 2014. From Denton, Texas El Dorado Springs,…
Southern plains rain totals from 3/14 – 3/16
Just for fun, I wanted to take a look at how we did for rainfall estimates across the southern plains yesterday… The forecast looked like this: Abilene – 50% || .50″ – .75″ Amarillo –…
One-Two punch means rain chances for southern plains
Mother Nature doesn’t often get compared to boxing, but this weekend the southern plains will be facing a one-two punch of systems giving the area decent chances for rain. Scenario As one area of low…
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Raining in L.A.? That means “Storm Team Coverage”
This just in…. (update 10:00am, Saturday, November 23) I wanted to throw out an update because Jimmy Kimmel apparently got in on the fun, too. Here is a snippet of his monologue covering the “rain”…
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It’s been wet in Oregon!
After a relatively dry spring and summer, winter has started early. For most of the state of Oregon it has been a very wet September. In fact, the wettest ever. Recap And after the latest…
Rain, drought relief, continues across southern high plains
A plume of monsoonal moisture continues to traverse sections of eastern New Mexico and the western Texas and Oklahoma panhandles this afternoon and evening. So far, radar estimates show between one and three inches of…
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Upper air shift might bring Amarillo rain chances
The high plains is sitting under – arguably – the strongest ridge of high pressure of the summer season. In fact, dating back to April, this is the longest stretch of sunshine the high plains…
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Odd weather pattern helps high plains drought, heat
Well, that was odd. Sometimes, it takes an odd weather phenomena to break an equally “odd” weather pattern (read: drought). The normal pattern for storms to take is from southwest to northeast. That didn’t happen…
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